GeForce 6500 and GeForce GTX 1660 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 6500 vs GeForce GTX 1660
GeForce 6500
39
GeForce GTX 1660
12040
GeForce 6500
GeForce GTX 1660
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
NV44 A2
Turing TU116
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2005
March 2019
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1785 MHz
Core clock speed
400 MHz
1530 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
75 million
6,600 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
1408
Power consumption (TDP)
-
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
1.600
157.1
Memory type
DDR2
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
6 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
532 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8.512 GB/s
192.1 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
7.5
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
3.0
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131